Video games. They were to blame for the dozens dead and wounded. They were behind the bloodiest massacre in U.S. history.

Or so Jack Thompson told Fox News and, in the days that followed, would continue to tell anyone who'd listen.
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"These are real lives. These are real people that are in the ground now because of this game. I have no doubt about it," said Thompson, a Florida attorney and fervent critic the of video game industry.

The game he's talking about is "Counter-Strike," a massively popular team-based tactical shooting game that puts players in the heavily armed boots of either a counter-terrorist or terrorist.

The best part however is...

But whether Seung-Hui Cho, the student who opened fire Monday, was an avid player of video games and whether he was a fan of "Counter-Strike" in particular remains, even now, uncertain at best.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18220228/

Thats right folks because there couldn't be any other possible reason for a nutjob going oh i dunno 'nuts'. Now it seems you don't even need to play the game for it to send it on your a murderous rampage.

for f***s sake

"i never ever saw him playing any kind of video games ever" - Cho's Room mate

f***in sensationalist c*** bag

Games don't make people go on shooting rampages. f***heads like Jack Thompson do!

I have to say reading articles like this incite more rage than any video game ever could.

wow what a complete f***ing moron.

I've never played a game that makes me want to go out and kill people.. however after watching 300 I wanted to find me some mulims and stab them with spears.

I just had a game of FIFA 07 and i feel like going out there and busting some knee caps.

Yeah that's gotta be it.

p.s. those in 300 were non muslim persians foo.

My bad, I wanted to kill non muslim persians instead.

right after it happened he blamed microsoft... why because microsoft made Counter strike...

whichy anyone in the industry knows microsoft has nothing todo with counter strike short of releasing it on the xbox, but this just proves jack doesnt do any proper research before citing general bull crap.

killing hostages in CS is probably harder than real life. maybe he was getting some practice in for a clan game

Jack has N.. F.. I..

Games don't do s*** to my understanding of life. I play games coz Im fking bored not coz im desensitised. Fuked up nut jobs kill people, not games.

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Just finished play sims and now i have an overwhelming desire to bake everyone a cake and drink expresso!

another great jack moment. the site kotaku.com posted a pretty extensive story disecting his interview on tv and all the lies he made, and posted the real facts. apparantly jack took offence to this and sent this to the FBI asking them to "stop or prosecute it" what a douchebag. oh s***, i insulted him on the internet, i think im gonna get sued/arrested/investigated by the fbi

typical old fart completely out of the program. who would listen to him anyways.

I hear gta has porn.

cant wait until someone starts running around with a sword or staff and killing people and start blaming wow for it...

people that blame video games are so stupid

he has got a point and his arguement would stand if he did proper research, thats the only reason i dont take him seriously, (that and the whole penny-arcade incident) and yes he is a tool, but his opinion is quite valid and its scary to think that if someone with the same opinion and ability to research better then he does comes along im pretty sure games would soon find some crazy censorship laws.

also note hillary clinton *hilldawg* supports wacko-jacko.

good thing presidents don't make laws. why is this guy so high-profile anyway, he seems to be just another lawyer making idiotic pronouncements on s*** he hasn't researched